Saints in the News: January 2021
Left: Sr. Wanda Boniszewska (1907-2003). (Image: CNA/episkopat.pl); right: Blessed Cyprain Micheal Iwene Tansi (Image: Jennifer Udoka Igboanugo/Wikipedia) VILNIUS—The Church has opened the beatification cause of Sr. Wanda Boniszewska, a Polish nun who was a reputed stigmatist and was tortured by Stalin’s secret police. Being a stigmatist means someone either literally or mystically bore the wounds of Christ’s Passion. Boniszewska began to have mystical experiences in 1921 that lasted over the next six decades. The Soviet secret police arrested her in 1950. News reports say she was seiz...
Source: catholicworldreport.com